{"id":458509,"date":"2026-03-05T07:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458509\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:38:16","slug":"north-of-sydney-an-artists-retreat-by-glenn-murcutt-comes-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/458509\/","title":{"rendered":"North of Sydney, an artists&#8217; retreat by Glenn Murcutt comes to market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pritzker Prize-winner Glenn Murcutt designed the Ball\u2013Eastaway House in the early 1980s for artists Sydney Ball and Lynne Eastaway. Set within 10 hectares of dry sclerophyll forest in Glenorie, near Dural in <a href=\"https:\/\/thespaces.com\/tag\/New-South-Wales\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New South Wales<\/a>, it appears as a long, low corrugated-iron volume. <\/p>\n<p>This was Murcutt\u2019s first house clad entirely in corrugated iron and the first sited in unaltered bushland \u2014 no trees were removed during construction. The house sits lightly on fine steel-pipe columns inserted into a sandstone ledge at the highest point of the site. Elevated above natural drainage lines, it allows air to circulate beneath and rainwater to pass freely. The brief called for both personal retreat and working environment, so a central corridor wall separates bedrooms from living areas, including a space designed specifically to accommodate Ball\u2019s large multi-panel painting. Repurposed agricultural sheds serve as studios nearby.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-057_high-res.jpg\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-057_high-res-100x100.jpg\" data-gallery=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-057_high-res-656x985.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-030_high-res.jpg\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-030_high-res-100x100.jpg\" data-gallery=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-030_high-res-804x985.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-006_high-res.jpg\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-006_high-res-100x100.jpg\" data-gallery=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-006_high-res-656x985.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-041_high-res.jpg\" data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-041_high-res-100x100.jpg\" data-gallery=\"https:\/\/cdn.thespaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-041_high-res-656x985.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p>Entry unfolds as a sequence: a bush path, a slender blue-painted steel portal, then an elevated timber walkway leading to a recessed porch. Internally, space is revealed gradually. A low fireplace wall partially conceals the living area from the dining space. Beyond, a north-west-facing verandah \u2014 originally conceived as a meditation space \u2014 opens to the bush. A second verandah projects outward as a social platform.<\/p>\n<p>Glass louvres, metal screens and skylights modulate light throughout the day. Murcutt\u2019s principle of \u2018prospect and refuge\u2019 is evident in the calibrated balance between exposure and shelter. <\/p>\n<p>The house won the Wilkinson Award in 1984 and has recently undergone a sympathetic restoration by Downie North. It is now State Heritage\u2013listed. Modern House is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernhouse.co\/listings\/ball-eastaway-house-by-glenn-murcutt\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">offering it for sale<\/a>, though the price is yet unpublished.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-028_high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159520\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-055_high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1366\" height=\"911\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159523\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-026_high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159519\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-025_high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159518\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1476-004_high-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159512\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photography: \u00a9 Richard Glover 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thespaces.com\/a-rudolph-schindler-house-with-a-trapezoidal-roof-hovers-above-the-san-fernando-valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read next: There\u2019s plenty of space beneath this butterfly roof by Rudolph Schindler<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thespaces.com\/cornwall-georgian-house-with-vaulted-artists-studio-and-kiln-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Slip into the artist\u2019s life at this Georgian house and studio in Cornwall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pritzker Prize-winner Glenn Murcutt designed the Ball\u2013Eastaway House in the early 1980s for artists Sydney Ball and Lynne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-458509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}